Score a piece of ART PAPERS history at our OFFICE SALE— 📦💝THIS SATURDAY, MAY 16, 11 AM – 4 PM.
Join our staff in bidding farewell to the office that Art Papers has occupied since the 1990s, and go home with a (gently loved) piece of that history. Items will be priced to sell, or make us an offer!
WE HAVE
Filing Cabinets
Tabletops/desks
Office Supplies & Equipment
Catering & Event Supplies
Office Chairs
Glassware
& more!
PLUS
Art Magazines (not just ART PAPERS)
Art Books
Art Papers Merch (T-shirts, Totebags, and, of course magazines!)
💻📐We’re thrilled to announce Jacob Lindgren (@lacobjindgren ) as the designer for 50 YEARS of ART PAPERS.
✏️ 🖌️ Lindgren is a Chicago-based graphic designer, web developer, and writer. He has worked on litany of different publications including Peak Picture Pixel Pile co-authored with James Langdon, Mimeograph Chronicles 謄写版クロニクル by Bruno Ruiz Nava and A Non-Coincidental Mirror by Carmen Amengual, all of which are pictured above. Lindgren is also a partner at the design studio Platform (@platplatformform ) and a co-founder of Inga (@ingabooks ), a bookshop focused on self-published and independently distributed artists’ books. His work “with and against the ways knowledge production, politics, and visual language are mediated by storytelling technologies” makes him uniquely attuned to the work of Art Papers, and we are so excited to work with him to share some of the timeless, timely, and ahead-of-their-time texts from our 50-year run.
📚 We’re also extending this second round of pre-order for one more week! If you want to be among the first to receive their copy, make sure to pre-order today via the link in the @artpapers bio
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Have you ordered your copy yet!?
📚 Updated cover reveal! Now that the final issue of ART PAPERS magazine is out in the world, we want to offer a status update on the biggest of our remaining projects, our retrospective book: 50 YEARS of ART PAPERS, edited by Sarah Higgins @pistachiocake and Re’al Christian @r_christian__ and designed by Jacob Lindgren @lacobjindgren
📦 We’ve had to adjust the delivery timeline of the book (thank you for your patience!), but we expect to receive the shipment from our printer in Belgium and begin filling orders in August.
🛍️ In light of this, we’re reopening pre-order through this coming Sunday, May 10. If you missed the initial window, this is another chance to secure your copy at the discounted pre-order price!
🔗 Get your copy today via the link in the @artpapers bio!
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🌱❤️🔥Hey LA-area folks! You’re invited celebrate with us at the LA Issue Launch this Friday, May 9, 7–10 PM at Edendale Restaurant & Bar in Silver Lake, CA. Join our Executive + Artistic Director Sarah Higgins, plus past contributors, artists, and friends to celebrate the West Coast launch of the final issue of ART PAPERS, and the conclusion of our 50-year run.
This casual, drop-in evening is a chance to reconnect with the LA-area Art Papers network and to meet some folks whose names you recognize from the masthead. We’ll have copies of the final, Fire Ecology, issue of the magazine, free to take home.
And if you can’t make the party, you can get your copy in our shop. The final issue remains free (link in bio) you will only be responsible for the cost of shipping.
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🔥 📄Continuing in ART PAPERS’ tradition of publishing documentation and synthesis from conferences and convenings, Jaedon Clarke Mason “distills” Atlanta Art Ecosystems. One of the pillar programs of Fire Ecology, the two-day program focused on the local, specifically on sharing insights and new modes being developed by Atlanta arts organizations.
🎤 Taken from the “Adaptive Forms” Panel, this quote is from The Bakery’s (@thebakeryatlanta ) Amanda P. Norris, discussing how the evolution of The Bakery over time has led their team to rethink “growth for growth’s sake.”
⚗️This “distillation,” along with the other panels from Atlanta Art Ecosystems, are available to read in full in Fire Ecology.
🛒 Get your copy today via the link in the @artpapers bio.
The issue is offered free of charge, but the edition is limited.
🗓️ Make sure to also mark your calendars for the Art Papers Office Sale coming up on May 16 at 11 AM.
🌱🔥 Check out the Editor’s Letter for Fire Ecology, the final issue of ART PAPERS. In her letter, Sarah Higgins calls the issue a “bonus,” and describes how, by being the outcome of our culminating project, it occupies a different role than past issues.
📸 Higgins’ text is accompanied by photographs from Rinko Kawauchi’s Ametsuchi series. Describing this work, Higgins writes that these photos “depict yakihata—a traditional Japanese practice and philosophy of farming with the use of beneficial fire. Kawauchi’s poetic depictions evoke the fleeting nature of human existence within time frames far longer than a lifespan, far greater than memory ....” —read the rest of the letter now on ARTPAPERS.org.
📗The full issue is only available in print, which you can order now via the link in @artpapers bio.
The issue is offered free of charge, but the edition is limited.
🗓️ Make sure to also mark your calendars for the Art Papers Office Sale coming up on Saturday, May 16, at 11 AM
50 years. One final issue. A celebration we’ll never forget. Thank You, Thank you, Thank you to our community. It was wonderful to gather with so many of the brilliant people who helped shape everything Art Papers was, and is. Past staff, writers, interns, board members, volunteers, subscribers, and even some new faces.
To everyone who came out, and to anyone who ever gave a piece of themselves to this work, it was a pleasure to share the celebration of its culmination with you.
Also! If you haven’t already, order your copy today via the link in the @artpapers bio. The issue is free, you just need to cover shipping.
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Photo credits: Kevell Byrd @vellproductions and Canyon Sorrells
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